In my last phone call with my mother she asked if I was going to watch the debate. When I told here her no, she was incredulous. “Don’t you want to know about the character of the two men who are vying for control over the highest office in the land?”
I explained that every day of every year is another episode in the sickening melodrama that is Donald Trump with more revealed about his cruelty, dishonesty and criminality. What can possibly be learned in a 90-minute debate that is unavailable the other 364 days of the year?
But by the time we said goodbye, Mom had made me promise that I would tune it in.
I’ll need a drink; I can tell you that. I’m prepared to light into that martini like a hungry bear lights into a salmon after a long hibernation.
The idea that this country is considering re-electing one the worst human beings who’s ever walked the Earth is nauseating. I feel sorry for recovering alcoholics who will have to sit through this sober.
Oh. Well, if a professional liar says that something about Trump is “an objective fact,” I guess it must be true.
lol
Basing a claim on a single incident, e.g., the murder of Charlie Kirk, has no real validity.
So, here’s was AI says on the matter:
Violent crime, particularly homicide and gun violence, is significantly higher in the United States compared to Europe.
The U.S. homicide rate fluctuates between 5.5 and 6.5 per 100,000 residents, whereas most Western European countries see rates well below 2.0 per 100,000. A resident of the U.S. is generally 5 – 6 times more likely to be a victim of a homicide than someone living in Western Europe.
The meme here speaks volumes to life in the United States and free market capitalism as a whole.
I happened to have met the guy who, in the 1990s, tried to build railways that would connect Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. One day he got a phone call from Herb Kelleher, co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, who told him, “The fare between any of the major cities in Texas is $80. The day you drive your first spike in the ground, I’m lowering it to $8.”
American businesspeople are no more interested in the wellbeing of our people than they have in being diagnosed with cancer.
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